Postgame Notes: Iowa 4, Michigan 3 (12 innings)
5/4/2013 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 4, 2013
• Freshman LHP Evan Hill (7-2, 2.60 ERA) pitched 6.1 innings, allowing three hits, and he was charged with two earned runs in a no-decision start. Hill left the game with a 3-0 lead, but his two runners that were on base when he left the game scored, and Iowa later tied the game in the eighth inning.
• Hill had four strikeouts to push his total to 40 on the season to rank second on the team while pitching a team-leading total of 72.6 innings. Hill leads the team with 12 pitching starts.
• Hill is 4-1 with a 3.00 ERA in conference-only action with Big Ten wins over Minnesota, Michigan State, Penn State and Northwestern and a loss at Indiana.
• Freshman SS Travis Maezes, who is hitting .294 (50-for-170), was 2-for-5 with two RBI. Maezes, who is second on the team with 30 RBI, is tied for second on the team with 13 multi-hit games.
• Junior OF Michael O'Neill, who is hitting .348 (64-for-184), was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run scored. O'Neill's fourth-inning single extended his current hitting streak to six games.
• O'Neill has hits in 36 of the 44 games this season and in 40 of his last 48 games in the past two seasons.
• Freshman 3B/RHP Jacob Cronenworth, who is hitting .319 (51-for-160), was 2-for-4 with a pair of singles and his team-leading 31st RBI of the season in action. Cronenworth has 13 multi-hit games on the season to share second on the team.
• Senior captain CF Patrick Biondi, who is hitting .333 (40-for-120), was 1-for-5 with a run scored. Biondi scored one run, giving him 29 runs scored in 2013 to push his career total to 178 runs to rank second on U-M's career runs scored list. The record is 190 runs scored by Casey Close (1983-86).
